Accuse the US of sabotage and it’s a conspiracy theory
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
● “Accuse the US of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines and it’s called a conspiracy theory.
● Accuse Russia of doing the exact same thing and it’s called news.
And of course by pointing out this cartoonish double standard I do not mean to suggest that both theories are equally well-evidenced.
One wouldn’t expect them to be in a contest in which one party had their own energy infrastructure sabotaged.
For example, there’s the fact that Secretary of State Antony Blinken explicitly said that the sabotage of pipelines delivering Russian gas to Germany offers a “tremendous opportunity” to end Europe’s dependency on Russian energy.
There’s also the fact that a 2019 Pentagon-commissioned study by the RAND Corporation on how to overextend and weaken Russia explicitly stated that the US would benefit from stopping Nord Stream 2.
There’s also the fact that both President Biden and his Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland explicitly said that Nord Stream 2 would be brought to an end if Russia invades Ukraine,
the fact that the US sanctioned those who built Nord Stream 2,
the fact that former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice is on record saying the US wants Europeans to be more dependent on North American energy than on pipelines from Russia,
the fact that Germans had just been angrily demanding an end to US-led sanctions on Russia and a reopening of Nord Stream gas,
the fact that US naval forces were recently conducting unmanned underwater vehicle drills right where the pipelines were attacked,
the fact that unmanned underwater vehicles have been found carrying explosive charges near Russian pipelines in the past,
the fact that Poland literally just inaugurated a gas pipeline that will transport gas from Norway through Denmark and the Baltic Sea,
the fact that US military helicopters were reportedly recorded traveling between the blast points and along the Nord Stream 2 pipeline shortly before the explosions,
and the fact that the CIA has a known history of blowing up Russian gas pipelines. …”
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^ Links detailing evidence for every single point above are in the article.
Please do feel free to rebut the links.
*Or* you can try to gaslight others by calling me a
“fan of Hitler” and also a “communist”
< eye roll >
which someone else did this morning, when I shared an article yesterday which observed:
“For the first time, America is supplying more natural gas to the EU bloc than Russia,
● but the cost is 10 times higher”
My old tag line as a volunteer moderator on the now defunct Oilpro forum:
Just my opinion; as always, you are free to disagree.